From the perl cookbook, i am using the following code to make a socket nonblocking. 
$flags = fcntl($socket, F_GETFL, 0)
        or die "Can't get flags for socket: $!\n";
fcntl($socket, F_SETFL, $flags | O_NONBLOCK)
        or die "Can't make socket nonblocking: $!\n";

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Sometimes this actually kills the server while there are still active connections to it. So, instead of doing an "or die" i need to handle this a different way.

My question is 2 fold.
1) What causes this to fail? Is it server side, client side, or both?
2) Whats the best way to handle this? Passing it to another function to clean everything up in regards to that one socket?

In reply to Non-Blocking Sockets by Anonymous Monk

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